Video: Man tries to be Daniel; gets mauled by a lion

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This story is a bit old (this news article dates it at January 12, 2004) but it follows in the theme of Biblical idiocy that seems awfully prevalent today. I’ll let the video speak for itself;

While most people don’t actually want to end up in a lion enclosure, there are many zoos in which it’s excessively easy to get close to big carnivores. I wonder how often events like these occur (I’ll post about it should I find a disturbing trend of yahoos feeding themselves to lions).

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